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Ann Bannon Early Lesbian Pulp Women in the Shadows 1959

Ann Bannon Early Lesbian Pulp Women in the Shadows 1959

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Ann Bannon Early Lesbian Pulp Women in the Shadows 1959

by Bannon Lesbian Pulp, Ann Bannon

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[LGBTQ] [Pulp] Ann Weldy writing under the pen name Ann Bannon. Women in the Shadows. Greenwich, CT: Gold Medal Books, 1959. First edition. 176 pages, about 4" x 7." Soft cover in hot pink shows a woman's shadowy profile with another woman's face interposed over it, her expression grim. Text beneath title reads: "Their dark and troubled loves could flourish only in secret." Ann Bannon began writing as a young, closeted housewife beginning to explore her own sexual identity. Her pulp novels were formative for lesbians coming of age during the 1960s, providing complex and humanizing portraits of queer women, anomalous at the time. Her success and female-positive take earned her the title "Queen of LEsbian Pulp". In her later years, reflecting on the series, Bannon wrote, "When I first started writing these books, I was a woman in love - not just with a few individuals, but with a whole community, a whole time and place, the entire world full of wonderful women and endearing gay men. I idealized them all. I was in love with being in love with them." Featured in Grier at the "A**" tier meaning significant lesbian characters and action and valuable to a collection of lesbian pulps. Light shelfwear but cover is clean and textblock tight. Overall in very good condition.

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Ann Bannon Early Lesbian Pulp Women in the Shadows 1959
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Bannon Lesbian Pulp, Ann Bannon
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